UP govt orders 50 per cent staff in offices in THESE four cities as Covid cases surge

The Uttar Pradesh authorities has ordered 50 per cent work-force in authorities and personal offices in 4 districts in the state together with Lucknow Kanpur, Prayagraj and Varanasi, in view of the rising Covid cases. The remaining 50 per cent staff will make money working from home. 

Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath chaired a gathering with the officers of Team-11 to overview the corona scenario in the state.

The chief minister requested officers to carry out vaccination of the goal age group on a precedence foundation in districts together with Lucknow, Prayagraj, Varanasi, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Meerut, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Jhansi, Bareilly, Ghaziabad, Agra, Saharanpur and Moradabad.

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On Thursday, Uttar Pradesh reported 8,490 new Covid cases. Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Health, Amit Mohan Prasad, mentioned that 50 per cent of the cases in the previous 24 hours have come from four cities – Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj. and Varanasi.

The variety of energetic cases in the state are 39,338 and 39 deaths have been reported in the previous 24 hours.

For the primary time in current historical past, queues have been seen on the cremation grounds in Lucknow the place tokens have been handed out to the kin of the deceased for his or her flip.

Five staff members on the postmortem home in King George’s Medical University examined optimistic however put up mortem of our bodies couldn’t be stopped for apparent causes on Thursday.

Meanwhile, evening curfew has been prolonged to Meerut, Ghaziabad, Noida, and Bareilly other than Lucknow, Kanpur, and Varanasi.

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